It is the last week of October 1956. Tomi and Annamari are happy not to have to go to school. Father returns from work and tells how he slapped a colleague. Grandmother fetches bread on the way home, and there are two bullet holes in the bread… Compared to films of the time that dealt with 1956, Whooping Cough was a curiosity. From a child's viewpoint, the events of the uprising are depicted with a natural roughness and seductive irony. Into the story of a somewhat left-leaning bourgeois family,... Péter Gárdos incorporated not only his own experiences, but those of his friends and generation with a grotesque psychological realism. The film is an emotional impression of how children perceived adults' fear in 1956; how they saw them form groups, seek self-justification or play roles, and how they heard them speak in euphemistic language. Certain things could not pass the censor prior to the change of political system: Imre Nagy could not be seen or heard in the film, and his November 4 speech only read out by an announcer. The reception was mixed: critics ignored the film, but audiences loved it, and it went on to win prestigious awards abroad from Cannes to Chicago.
Presented by: Palace of Arts, MaNDA
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